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Charles William Brackett (November 26, 1892 – March 9, 1969) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He collaborated with Billy Wilder on sixteen films. Life and career. Brackett was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, the son of Mary Emma Corliss and New York State Senator, lawyer, and banker Edgar Truman Brackett.
- 1925–1962
- November 26, 1892, Saratoga Springs, New York, U.S.
Died March 9, 1969 (76) Add to list. Won 3 Oscars. 7 wins & 13 nominations total. Photos. Known for. Sunset Blvd. 8.4. Writer. 1950. The Lost Weekend.
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- Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
Jan 10, 2015 · Jan. 9, 2015 1:10 PM PT. In screenwriter Charles Brackett’s diary entry for Aug. 18, 1936, he recalls working for the first time with Billy Wilder, with whom Paramount had paired him to write...
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In Billy Wilder: Early life and work. …former New Yorker theatre critic Charles Brackett. After first collaborating on Ernst Lubitsch’s Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938), they wrote such romantic-comedy gems as Mitchell Leisen’s Midnight (1939), Lubitsch’s Ninotchka (1939), and Howard Hawks’s Ball of Fire (1941).
Feb 23, 2024 · After curating a 2013 program called Strange Magic for Cinematheque of all the films written together, then eventually produced and directed by the Brackett/Wilder team, I am currently curating a follow-up Cinematheque program selection slated for 2024: Double Solitaire: The Unlikely Cinema of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. It will showcase ...
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A simply typed warning from Wilder and screenwriter Charles Brackett graces the cover page: “This is the first act of Sunset Boulevard. Due to the peculiar nature of the project, we ask all our coworkers to regard it as top secret.” And top secret it remained, especially since Wilder had not finished writing the script.
Charles William Brackett (November 26, 1892 – March 9, 1969) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer. He collaborated with Billy Wilder on sixteen films. Brackett was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, the son of Mary Emma Corliss and New York State Senator, lawyer, and banker Edgar Truman Brackett.
